New books on 19th-century interiors

A book event co-organized by the William Morris Society in the United States and the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians

Friday, February 24, 1 pm EST(10 am PST, 11 am MST, 12 noon CST, 6:00 pm GMT)

Andrea Wolk Rager, The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones…[Read more]

The SAH Historic Interiors Group invites session proposals on the theme of historic interiors for SAH 2024. The Historic Interiors Group (HIG) is an affiliate of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). One of the goals of HIG is to promote and advance scholarship in the history of interiors. HIG regularly endorses a session at the annual…[Read more]

CFP: Conference ‘Educating the Interior Designer’

The conference will take place in Ghent on September 8th, 2023.

Deadline for the call for papers is February 1st, 2023. See http://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com and pdf attachment.

The conference is directly related to a four year research project I’m supervising together with my collea…[Read more]

SAH HIG is looking for blog post ideas on member activities/travel/fieldwork in historic interiors for the HIG web site. Please forward ideas to Jennifer Komar Olivarez at jolivare@artsmia.org.

See Paula Lupkin’s initial post for “HIG in the Field” here:…[Read more]

Boiseries: Decoration and Migration from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Thursday 12th & Friday 13th January 2023 Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent)

This two-day conference investigates the cultural and commercial migrations of French eighteenth-century boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi to the…[Read more]

Announcing the SAH Historic Interiors Group Education Roundtable, Friday, December 2nd, 12 to 1:30 pm EST

The HIG Education Roundtable will focus on best practices and new ideas for the teaching of history of interior courses.  The event will include short presentations from experienced educators about what works in the classroom as well as i…[Read more]

DEADLINE SOON: SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee-organized virtual workshops on new methodological approaches in arch. history and related fields. Proposals due 10/24. Details here: https://www.sah.org/conferences-and-programs/graduate-student-programs/method-acts

Hi all,

Paula Lupkin has prepared the latest HIG Newsletter and Calendar – please see attached. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming events!

Jennifer Olivarez

INVITATION FOR ESSAYS
Interior Provocations: On Edge

We seek a number of history-focused essays to complete an edited volume based on the fifth
annual Interior Provocations symposium, “On Edge.” Like the symposium, the edited volume will
be composed of essays reflecting the research and work of historians and practitioners. Ple…[Read more]

Friday, October 21, 2022

Paula Lupkin, University of North Texas

Moderator: Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Research Committee

At SAH 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, HIG President Paula Lupkin presented a paper based on extensive research into the historiography of interiors in several major scholarly journals, including the Journal of the…[Read more]

From Paula Lupkin:

HIG Folk,

HIG’s Emerging Scholars Symposium on Digital Interiors, concluded on Friday June 17, was brilliantly conceived, organized, and led by Lauren Drapala, Laura Jenkins, Vanessa Vanden Berghe and Michelle Jackson-Bennett. Recordings of both panels are now available for viewing through the SAH Connects website.

The…[Read more]

Free and open to the public. The symposium will be recorded and video will be available online after the events.

This symposium, sponsored by the SAH Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), will bring together Emerging Scholars and early-career professionals from across the globe to discuss digitality in relation to the study and practice of…[Read more]

National Symposium: Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia

(The 2022 National Symposium is a collaboration of Docomomo US and Docomomo US/Philadelphia)

May 31 – June 5, 2022

Philadelphia, PA

“ Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, ‘yo’ is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when…[Read more]